Daydreams about winning later. For now, make sure everyone signs the contract. You are watching market makers. Im Erik Schatzker. Im stephanie ruhle. Rebecca black, because it is friday. The top business stories from around the world. Qualcomm has a new ceo. The worlds biggest maker of chips for mobile phones announced the change this morning just hours earlier. The microsoft board had been ollenkopf for its ceo job. Sales of the 500 seat monster airbus a 380 have been slowing, but in an interview, the ceo says rising traffic should boost demand. Deny that traffic will grow five percent year on year thanks to asia, china, middle east, so it will double every 15 years. Imagine two times more traffic from heathrow. A record snowstorm in the middle east. It was snowing in cairo for the first time in more than a century. Neard three feet jerusalem, bringing traffic to a standstill. I want to talk about your hair for the next two hours because it is so kooky. In s at the fee suite see suite
Im and piedmont right now gearing up in anticipation of these storms that are heading our way. Especially after what they had to deal with last year. Take a look. This is a major thoroughfare in this east bay city. From last april you can see mudslide caused a lot of damage. This line knocked out power to 65 homes in the area for several hours. It was quite a mess. A big problem for hundreds of residents. The director of public works tell the kron4 news that after investigation the slide was caused by misdirected storm water from a nearby home. This is the same area several months later. The plan was worked out and the homeowner has taken several steps to deal with the issue. The russian control materials have been put in as well as new landscaping and a concrete barrier. Not all the work is done but major progress has been completed. Hopefully another has been done to prevent another situation like last winter. That is just a small sample of what the city is doing to try to make sure
Docket. May be seven. Well find out more in a few minutes. Watch bonds today. Investors pulled 4 billion from treasury funds in the weekended wednesday. Youre going to hear more great rotation talk today. Road map begins with blackberry open to the idea of going private. Also, priceline beating expectations and the shares approaching new highs, not seen since the dotcom era. Its shark week on wall street as our our guest likes to say. Hedge funder bill ackman pushes jcpenney to push up its search for a ceo. Published reports say the smartphone maker is warming up to the possibility of going private. The companys board are said to be increasingly coming around to the idea. No deal is imminent and blackberry has apparently not launched any kind of sale process. Interesting though, guys, reuters is saying theyre having discussions about collaboration with silver lake. Nothing regarding m and a but just in a time when theyre involved in another highprofile deal. Mike . I think no growth or
We begin with the Obama Administrations latest attempt to explain the misleading information given out in the days after the september 11th attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Four americans including the u. S. Ambassador to libya died in what we now know was a terrorist attack. But that isnt what the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations susan rice said when she went on National Television five days after the attack. Today rice is up on capitol hill. Shes explaining what happened and some bigname republicans clearly are not very happy with her answers. Our senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash is following whats become a pretty long day a tiring day for the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Whats the latest, dana . Reporter wolf, the three republican senators who had vowed to block susan rice from being secretary of state if the president nominates her had really softened the rhetoric in recent days. Im told the reason for that was because it was a curtesy in order f
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